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    So much more can be conveyed in artwork when a finite canvas doesn’t imprison an artist. Pushing the boundaries of artwork from previous time periods allows new artists and graphic designers to experiment with, challenge, and/or destroy the rules of graphic design. This allowed for designs that truly challenge the audience, as well as other designers. Take for example the grunge artwork of David Carson who broke most compositional and legibility rules of graphic design – his style can be summarized

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    experimental, were made in collaboration with the sculptor and master of form, Gerhard Marcks. In 1923, the pottery workshop made a technological leap by moving from the potter’s wheel to ceramic casting. The ceramics workshop was not continued in Dessau. From 1923, the former goldsmith, silversmith and coppersmith workshops of the Weimar phase became a laboratory for design where metal vessels and lamps were made. This is also where the designs for industry, as well as metal furniture, were ultimately

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    For news on the television there faces a problem, a dilemma. The editor must decide whether to edit a video content or not. If the editor then decides to edit a news video content the editor must then decide how to edit that content and how he/she wants to portray the information that video is showing. The dilemma truly being if one edits content one is not showing all the news to the general public and thus not giving all the information ones, but rather giving out the information that one, or the

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    Zyklon B: Genocide

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    causing fear, dizziness, and vomiting and the victim dies from oxygen starvation. The gas chambers are rooms or places to kill people or animals with toxic gases, Zyklon-B was made for two German companies Tesch and Stabenow of Hamburg Degesch of Dessau this have the same meaning in English but let’s continue; the Nazis after the War many blamed these companies, and these companies tried to bring a trial. After the end of August 1941, Zyklon B was used in the camp, first experimentally and then

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    John Peter (1900-1950) began his career in the early 1920's, after a musical childhood and several years of study in US. By the time his first opera, The Protagonist (Peter Georg), was performed in April 1926, he was an established young German composer. But he had already decided to devote himself to the musical theater, and his works with Bertolt Brecht soon made him famous all over Europe. He fled the new Nazi leadership in March 1933 and continued his indefatigable efforts, first in Paris (1933-35)

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    Walter Gropius stated that one of the aims of the Bauhaus was “a new unity” between art and technology. Was the Bauhaus successful in merging art with mass-­‐production? Or, despite their utopic ideals, were they limited to designing for an elite? The Bauhaus was an art and design school that operated in Germany from 1919 to 1933 (Smith 2005, p. 31) and was a major component of the Modernism movement. In 1923 the schools’ founder Walter Gropius called for “a new unity” between art and technology

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    The Impact Of Modernism

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    Jonathan Glance , author of the book 20th Century Architecture ; The Structures That Shaped The Century describes modernism as “ an attitude rather than a style “ an attempt to free the architect from the rules of convention. Form following function was an attribute adopted by architectural modernists. As a result of this, modern architecture is no longer ornamentally focused but uses materials such as concrete, glass, steel and wood for functional construction. With reference to Le Corbusier and

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    Bauhaus reformed design culture by presenting a cross-disciplinary curriculum and incorporated the juncture of modernization and vision. The Bauhaus movement arose in 1919 when Walter Gropius established a school with a concept of bridging the gap amongst art and industry by joining crafts and fine arts. Preceding the Bauhaus movement, fine arts like architecture and design were viewed in more regard than craftsmanship, but Gropius stressed that all trades, involving art, architecture and geometric

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    Identify and discuss three key issues in the relationship between Modern and Postmodern architecture or design Modernism is a Philosophical movement that along with cultural trends and changes arose in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Modern architecture developed as a result of social and political revolutions. Others believe it was driven by engineering and technological development. Along with the industrial revolution the availability of materials such as iron steel and sheet glass

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    dead product of the machine’’. During his lifetime, he designed many famous buildings such as the Bauhaus school building and faculty housing which was aimed at the design master teachers and himself to live in. The school was moved from Weimar to Dessau 1925 because of Nazis. Following the movement of the school Walter Gropius Designed a series of semi-detached houses which is known to be Bauhaus facility housing. Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gropius himself lived in these houses which

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